apt-spy failure

2002-12-20 Thread Charles Baker
I've been trying to run apt-spy the last couple of days and keep getting the following error: usmghdebian:/etc/apt# apt-spy -d unstable -s \ /root/tops.20021220 ::: Will save top sites to /root/tops.20021220. ::: Unrecoverable Error [1]: Could not retrieve list from DEBIAN.ORG ::: [] Saving TOP

Re: lilo hangs @ 'L'

2002-12-09 Thread Charles Baker
--- Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A better solution of course would be to simply > > reinstall Lilo > > reinstall Lilo? Do you mean simply type lilo at > the prompt or apt-get reinstall install lilo? > > /sbin/lilo at the bash shell command prompt as root. {{SNIP}} = [E

Re: lilo hangs @ 'L'

2002-12-09 Thread Charles Baker
--- Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When booting my system lilo hangs at 'L'. I > can boot from the floppy fine. This occurs when > booting from the harddrive only. No > error code just 'L' > > How do i fix? > > Lance > This is a quite common problem. Lots of discussions and sol

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

2002-12-06 Thread Charles Baker
--- Andrew Lindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 machines running Woody and not enough desk > space for both > screens and keyboards. I'd like to be able to run X > sessions on both > A quick google for ``Linux remote x sessions'' yeilded all sorts of stuff: http://www.linux.org/docs/

Cannot shutdown Tomcat with GLIBC in unstable

2002-12-04 Thread Charles Baker
I just tried to shutdown Tomcat 4.1.12-2 using Sun JDK 1.3.1_03 on my box running unstable. I got the following undefined symbol message and Tomcat does not shutdown. Does anyone have a suggestion for what I should do other than kill the Tomcat pids? I wonder if I do that will Tomcat be able to res

Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 "root=301"

2002-11-25 Thread Charles Baker
--- Tom Schutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 07:44, Charles Baker wrote: > > > > --- Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Tom Schutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am having trouble setting up Debian

Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 "root=301"

2002-11-24 Thread Charles Baker
--- Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Schutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having trouble setting up Debian woody on a > IOpener. I am > > setting up the IDE drive on another machine, and > then hooking it up to > > the IOpener and attempting to boot. When I > attempt to boot w

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Charles Baker
--- Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I visited my mother last week to help her setup her > DSL > connection. While doing so I realized that her > Windows 2000 350 MHz > box is a lot more responsive then my Debian/GNU/KDE > 500 MHz box. > > So out goes KDE. > > I tried out the minimalisti

Re: New on Debian

2002-10-31 Thread Charles Baker
--- Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Don, 2002-10-31 um 03.45 schrieb debianoverdunes: > > Hello out thereĀ” > > > > Being new to debian makes me ask some boring > questions but I fel > > like walking over dunes in the sahara. How do I > suppose to get into my > > debian system

Re: Looking for a firewall

2002-10-24 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got my handy-dandy firewall up and running > with iptables. However > I'm always looking for a better way to lock it down. > Can anyone send me > a "here's mine" or close for something that does > this: > > Allows all oubound ne

everybuddy 0.4.2 on testing

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Baker
Has anyone else noticed strange behaviour from everybuddy? I'm using 0.4.2 on testing. Lately, the main everybuddy window listing contacts will become blank. Also, everybuddy will shut down for no apparent reason. Any clues? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Charles Baker
--- Jason Wojciechowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Charles, > > On Oct 4, Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > | Pardon my ignorance, but there doesn't seem to be > much > | documentation on the gworkspace site. What is the > | p

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Charles Baker
--- Jason Wojciechowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ben wrote: > > | thanks jason. apt crapped out on the first try. i > needed to update. > | gworkspace is a bit of a resource hog, though. it > totally claimed > | my fluxbox workspace, obliterating everything > else that was running > | t

RE: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-03 Thread Charles Baker
--- Michael Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you check out sourceforge under desktop file > managers, I saw a few like > this while I was checking out different > possibilities. > > Best Wishes! > Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org FSViewer: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsviewer/?topic_id=860 {

Re: How "stable" is "testing"?

2002-09-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering how stable people are finding testing > for use on their > workstations. I am running woody, and very happy > with it. However, I > would like to be a bit more up to date with some of > my software - for > instance, I'd like to be using

Re: unstable, just how unstable is it

2002-09-18 Thread Charles Baker
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:46:45PM -0700, Charles > Baker wrote: > > Okay I asked this question a few weeks ago and got > the above warning > > about Python, Perl and glibc. Can anyone tell me > if these issues bee

Re: PHP3 files on Apache 1.3.26 and PHP4

2002-09-17 Thread Charles Baker
--- Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running apache 1.3.26 and php4. I've never tried > to do anything w/ php on my server. I installed an > app > that has php3 files. When I try to browse the app, I > get a mime-type error. Galeon doesn't see

PHP3 files on Apache 1.3.26 and PHP4

2002-09-17 Thread Charles Baker
I'm running apache 1.3.26 and php4. I've never tried to do anything w/ php on my server. I installed an app that has php3 files. When I try to browse the app, I get a mime-type error. Galeon doesn't seem to know what to do...I think the following are all the relevant line from my httpd.conf: Load

Re: unstable, just how unstable is it

2002-09-17 Thread Charles Baker
--- Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:56, Charles Baker wrote: > > I'm seeing some packages in unstable that I would > > really like, for instance tomcat 4.1.9. But I'm > > wondering just how unstable is unstable, say on a

Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-24 Thread Charles Baker
--- Ben Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am unable to connect to secure websites using > mozilla on my debian system. > All other browsing seems to work fine, but when I > try a secure site, it just > freezes and times out. I have got mozilla-psm > installed and I regularly >

Re: linux and laptops

2002-06-20 Thread Charles Baker
--- Deedra Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm supposed to start school in august, and I'm > getting a gateway solo > 1450 for a laptop for classes. I'm curious as to > wether any of you know > how well this type of laptop will work with linux. > I've heard both that > the gateway laptops work

Re: WM Suggestions

2002-06-07 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, running gnome at work. Been useing > Sawfish-gnome as my window > manager. I'm having problems with the system > hanging randomly with no > error messages, etc. The only thing I haven't > eliminated yet is sawfish > and gnome. Anyo

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread Charles Baker
--- arthur_dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to begin to secure my P.C.. It's only a > home computer but may > hopefully later be linked to a second pc via 10/100 > nics. > > I was reading a faq on the net about securing a > linux box and they recomend > to not have certain service

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi- > > How do I know what X version I'm running? > TIA > Regs > Henry > <> Try: dpkg -l xfree* | grep "^ii" The output should be something like: ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-17 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure dpkg is the de

Re: Having a similar problem

2002-05-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- Jason Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears I am having a very similar issue as you > with > > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not moounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount ro

Re: Webmin on Debian

2002-05-23 Thread Charles Baker
--- Kevin Ruml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same problem. I'm running Webmin 0.92-6 > on a Woody box. The File > Manager module doesn't show up in the "Other" index > where it should be > (according to Webmin). I can reassign it to another > category, but it doesn't > show up ther

Re: serving the web without a web server

2002-05-21 Thread Charles Baker
--- Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:12:04PM -0500, Jamin W. > Collins wrote: > > On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:18 +0100 > > "Keith Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have something bizarre happening: I serve > some web sites, including > > > h

Re: serving the web without a web server

2002-05-21 Thread Charles Baker
--- Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web > sites, including http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and > even though I've stopped apache (apachectl stop), I > can still ping the web site: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.dynamiccompan

Re: Thanks!

2002-05-03 Thread Charles Baker
--- Jianbo Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks! > > I am afraid that there is message on the screen that > said "please insert > CD 2" like Redhat. > > Regards! > > Jianbo > That's most likely because you selected some stuff for installation that was not on the first CD. Also,

Re: woody

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Baker
--- Jianbo Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Right now there 8 CDs for woody, could anybody tell > me how many I need to > install OS? I don't need source CD. Since I am not > on the mailing list, > please reply to me. Thanks! > > Regards! > > Jianbo > You only need one for the ba

Re: Apt from behind a firewall

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Baker
--- Johan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to use apt-get from behind a firewall > but am not sure exactly > how to set up the apt.conf file. When I normally ftp > to a site outside the > firewall the procedure is as follows: > > ftp uuu.vvv.www.xx > userid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.4.17 and above for debian LINUX

2002-04-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- Deepak Kotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the information!! > > Thanks and Regards > Deepak > > - Original Message - > From: "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Deepak Kotian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "STOJICEVIC Edi EXPSIA" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > Sent: Tuesda

Re: Reading to turn computer into internet router for modem

2002-04-29 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Michael W. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to create an internet > router for two > computers. One is a linux and the other is a > windows 98. I just want > to be able to have access to the internet on either > at any time. > Could someone please direct me t

Re: apm

2002-04-27 Thread Charles Baker
--- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:50:31AM -0700, Charles > Baker wrote: > > Something seems to have broken my apm. My bios and > > wmbattery show that my Dell Latitude battery is > 100% > > charged. However, everytime I remove

apm

2002-04-27 Thread Charles Baker
Something seems to have broken my apm. My bios and wmbattery show that my Dell Latitude battery is 100% charged. However, everytime I remove the power cable, the laptop just loses power. Does anyone have a clue? I'm running sid w/ kernel 2.4.18-686 as packaged. Lilo has append="apm=on". ``cat /proc

Wireless VPN and Debian

2002-04-20 Thread Charles Baker
Back in the Feb. issue of LinuxJournal this year, Don Marti wrote an article on Wireless networking and vpn. He used Debian and vpnd for his article. The article was not exactly a step by step thing, just enough to get one started. For example: "At this point you should be able to ping the base st

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Baker
--- Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > > That's a scary tool, if I ever saw one. I have it > running once a day, > > and it almost always reports a possible LKM > "infection". Sometimes it > > detects 1 process hidden from ps, sometimes

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Baker
--- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but > I am having lots > of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using > the idepci disks > (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot from > the hard disk with > no difficulty. > > The difficulty co

xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-18 Thread Charles Baker
I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It would be easier on all if there was a graphical login. I'm wondering which of these display managers to choose? Does anyone know of a comparison? We'll be using WindowMaker and Xfce as our primary windowmanagers. I'm not trying to start a religious

Re: make-kpkg

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Baker
--- Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using sid,I was trying to compile new kernel w/ > make-kpkg when I got this series of errors, can > someone shed a little light on my benighted brain? > > <> Sorry, screwed up my paste: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sr

make-kpkg

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Baker
Using sid,I was trying to compile new kernel w/ make-kpkg when I got this series of errors, can someone shed a little light on my benighted brain? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -686 --initrd --revision=rev.01 kernel_image test ! -f stamp-debian && test

Re: Dummy Packages

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Baker
--- Bill Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > also sprach Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2002.04.15.2247 > > +0200]: > > > Can someone point me to a dock that will help me > > > create

Dummy Packages

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Baker
Can someone point me to a dock that will help me create a dummy package? I want to install velocity as a deb, but it requires libxalan2-java which is available. However, libxalan2-java depends on java2-runtime which is not, but I do have a Java2 environment installed. BTW, this is on a machine runn

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Charles Baker
> --- Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What should a standard testing machine's > > /etc/apt/sources.list file look > > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting > > some errors on all of the > > "security" sources that are listed. > > > <> > > IIRC, the security source

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Charles Baker
--- Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should a standard testing machine's > /etc/apt/sources.list file look > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting > some errors on all of the > "security" sources that are listed. > <> IIRC, the security sources only apply to sta

Re: xfce

2002-03-13 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:23:24PM -0800, Craig > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:25:52PM -0600, Kevin C. > Smith wrote: > > > Anyone running XFce and Unstable. > > > Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian > menu (xfmenu). > > > Anyone

Re: Massive issues with WMaker and X

2002-03-10 Thread Charles Baker
--- Manoj Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have the package 'menu' installed? > > mvm. > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:42:56PM -0800, Jonathan > Ard wrote: > > > > Ok, so I am having some major issues with Window > Maker. When I start it > > up, it tells me it can't load the Applic

Re: postgresql upgrade problem

2002-03-07 Thread Charles Baker
--- Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 01:41, Charles Baker wrote: > ... > > Well, I just did an ``apt-get install > > postgresql-client'' and it caused many supporting > > packages to be installed including postgresql. Is > this > > i

Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-06 Thread Charles Baker
<> > > Okay, I ran modconf and installed apm module in the > kernel. Before wasn't apm built into most debian > kernel images? I also did a ``cp -R > /lib/modules/kernel-pcmcia-2.4.18-686 > /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/pcmcia'' and the pcmcia > modules showed up in modconf. I installed > yenta_socket,

Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-06 Thread Charles Baker
--- Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Charles, > > <> > > > > --- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Look in /proc. T

Re: postgresql upgrade problem

2002-03-06 Thread Charles Baker
--- Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After postgresql was kept back on both an upgrade > and > a dist-upgrade, I tried an install. This is the > result: > > twin:/etc/apt# apt-get install postgresql > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependenc

postgresql upgrade problem

2002-03-06 Thread Charles Baker
After postgresql was kept back on both an upgrade and a dist-upgrade, I tried an install. This is the result: twin:/etc/apt# apt-get install postgresql Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impo

Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-06 Thread Charles Baker
--- Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Charles, <> > > --- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Look in /proc. There should be an apm file > there. > > > If not, linux is NOT using > > > apm. > > > > Okay, no /proc/apm but what could've killed it for > > 2.4.17 ?

Re: apm strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Charles Baker
--- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look in /proc. There should be an apm file there. > If not, linux is NOT using > apm. Okay, no /proc/apm but what could've killed it for 2.4.17 ? It was working just fine before I installed 2.4.18 . = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good

kernel-2.4.18-686-image and pcmcia

2002-03-05 Thread Charles Baker
I did an apt-get install of kernel-2.4.18-686 on my Dell Latitude yesterday. Everything looked good, but when I rebooted into 2.4.18, I had no pcmcia network connection. A little investigation showed that the pcmcia modules were installed to /lib/modules/kernel-pcmcia-2.4.18-686 instead of /lib/mod

apm strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Charles Baker
I had kernel-2.4.17-686-image running just fine w/ apm support on my Dell Latitude. I think it's very nice of the package maintainers to include that, btw. I have the line append="apm=on" in my lilo.conf. Yesterday I installed kernel-2.4.18-686-image. Now when booting back into 2.4.17, wmbattery wo

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

2002-03-04 Thread Charles Baker
Take a look at these sites for help, using them I got my visor to synch via usb w/ jpilot in sid kernel2.2.19 & 2.4.17 http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/Handspring-Visor.html http://usbvisor.sourceforge.net/index.php3 --- james martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I am running Woody and want

Swap space

2002-02-24 Thread Charles Baker
I'm about to install sid, using unoffical iso's, on a machine w/ 384MB of RAM. Old rule of thumb was 2*RAM-SIZE = SWAP-SIZE . Do I really need 768MB of swap space?!?!?! Plus, since the install uses 2.2.20 kernel, will it be able to handle a swap space larger than 128MB? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hac

Re: cvs question

2002-02-17 Thread Charles Baker
<> > > > > I moved the source to a different machine where I > had > > set up a new repository. I edited the headers of > the > > files that had been checked in before, deleting > the > > expanded $ID$ information. I then proceeded to do > a > > standard ``cvs import`` of my project. I then > chec

cvs question

2002-02-17 Thread Charles Baker
Are there any cvs guru's on the list? I had some files that had previously been checked into cvs. There were also some files in the same project which had not been checked in ever. I moved the source to a different machine where I had set up a new repository. I edited the headers of the files that

Are unofficial sid iso's bootable?

2002-02-16 Thread Charles Baker
Are the unofficial sid iso images bootable? Can I install directly from them, or do I have to write the floppy disk images they contain to floppies and then install? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __

WAS-> Re: digital camera reccomendations for debian NOW-> kernel 2.4.x

2002-02-16 Thread Charles Baker
--- nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Gphoto2 allegedly supports my Canon PowerShot G2, > but I never got > > it to work; gphoto2 just insisted the camera > wasn't there. > > hmm, good to know, i guess the info there isn't too > reliable. > > > Fortunately, I found a better solution anyw

base-passwd

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Baker
I just did an ``apt-get update`` and then ``apt-get -u upgrade`` for sid. I noticed that base-passwd was going to be upgraded again and recalled the problems of a week or so ago. Is this one safe? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.h

Re: "RPM hell" question

2002-01-26 Thread Charles Baker
--- Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I was recently asked to help a Redhat user install > an RPM file from > rpmfind.net. It had a dozen of unsatisfied > dependencies that had their own > unsatisfied dependencies, etc. My only idea was to > manually search > rpmfind.net, download the n

Re: Gtk error only when root! (??)

2002-01-22 Thread Charles Baker
man xhosts --- Camilux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > im having this *very* strange error in deb 2.2 , > ximian gnome... > > if i am not root, i can for example open gdmconfig, > but it says i > need to be root to change things; so i su - myself > up to root, but > when i type gdmconfig,

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Charles Baker
I think a careful reading of the following documents might help in understanding the motivations behind the debian project as a whole: http://www.debian.org/intro/free http://www.debian.org/social_contract --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes:

Re: kernel compile question

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Baker
--- Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi *, > > i am trying to build a bootable CD-ROM with debian > which runs completly > in RAM, for FW use. so i am trying to keep my kernel > as small as possible. <> Unless this is just an exercise in learning, you might want to check out http://leaf.so

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Baker
--- Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:56PM -0200, Jeronimo > Pellegrini wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:47:39AM -0500, Wayne > Topa wrote: > > > > What "OT:" means seems to be known to many, > but I haven't a > > > > clue. Please enlighten me. > > > > >

Re: Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-17 Thread Charles Baker
some instructions and packages for upgrading potato to the 2.4 kernel here: http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html If I'm wrong about this, someone correct me. I jumped from potato to woody before potato became stable, and then on to sid. > On 17 Jan 2002, at 10:23, Charles Baker wrote: &g

Re: Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-17 Thread Charles Baker
--- Camilux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > Well, im using Debian 2.2 r5 (just upgraded a while > ago to that)... > > again, thanks a lot for all the help.. > > - Camilo > > <> In that case, the latest kernel package available for you is 2.2.19. You are using the stable distribu

Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-17 Thread Charles Baker
Here is a more complete howto by another poster. Kernel 2.5.x is the development series and not recommended for new users. The latest stable kernels are the 2.4 series. You don't mention what distribution of debian you are using so it's hard to tell what the latest debian kernel package for you is.

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-16 Thread Charles Baker
--- Camilux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ppl, just wanted to know if theres a "Debian" way > of upgradind > the kernel as well.. or is it still manually > downloading, unzipping, > etc etc? > > thanks! > Camilo > > Debian way to compile a new kernel: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-15 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Will this allow one to install a 2.4.x kernel as > the > > default kernel upon installation? Or will the > default > > kernel be in the 2.2.x series? > > > > No; these CD's are built with boot-floppies, hence > uses the 2.2.x series

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-15 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not see mentioned in this long thread, the > possibility of woody CD > installs. > > iso images are available at > http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#testing > > You need only the first image to do a "base" > install, but burning the

compiling sources and apt

2002-01-03 Thread Charles Baker
A few weeks ago, someone mentioned a way to compile programs from source using an apt tool that would go and get any missing components needed to compile said sources. What was this utility? I can't for the life of me recall what it was. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http:

Re: Windowmaker 0.80 key bindings

2001-12-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:20:02PM -0800, Charles > Baker wrote: > > Did an apt-get upgrade today and got WindowMaker > 0.80. > > Now none of the Windowmaker keybindings seem to be > > working, > > Since they&#

Windowmaker 0.80 key bindings

2001-12-30 Thread Charles Baker
Did an apt-get upgrade today and got WindowMaker 0.80. Now none of the Windowmaker keybindings seem to be working, for instance alt-n where n=1..10 to switch between workspaces, or F12 to bring up the application menu. Anyone else experiencing this? Any work arounds or particular places to look? =

Re: what does a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Charles Baker
Forgot to mention that I am African-American. I do have a degree in Computer Science (Yale dropout class of 88, finally graduated from Univ of Tennessee at Chattanooga 99). I program mostly in Java and Perl, though I long for Python. I've been using Linux since Redhat 5.0. Started w/ Slink in late

Re: what does a debian kid look like?

2001-12-20 Thread Charles Baker
This debian-kid is 35, married w/ two kids and one on the way. My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80. Computers, programming and sysadmin stuff, are my second profession. I was once a bookstore manager! Now I am a fulltime web developer/webmaster for a major manufacturer of electrical motors and oth

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-20 Thread Charles Baker
--- Lev Lvovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for C, I would recommend the Kernighan & Ritchie > book. > > -lev > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Phil Beder wrote: > > > Where can I find a good, complete manual for C and > C++ programming > > languages for the gcc compiler. Other resouces > for learni

Re: GnomeICU, Gaim, Gabber and alike

2001-12-14 Thread Charles Baker
--- Markus Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > I know recently that icq changes its protocol and > breaking some > > ICQ client like GnomeICU, Gabber, and Gaim. I > used GnomeICU and > > encounter a lot of problem like dropping message > silently. Just > > wondering if the protocol

Re: Latest GnuCash .debs

2001-12-13 Thread Charles Baker
--- Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found .debs of the latest GnuCash at > www.gnucash.org, but no discussion > of what version of Debian they are for. > > Any chance these will work on woody? > > -- > Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 843-745-3154

Re: Problems upgrading kernel

2001-12-10 Thread Charles Baker
--- Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2001 18:58, William P Martin > wrote: > > I have been trying to upgrade both a woody box and > a sid box to a 2.4 > > kernel (2.4.16 and 2.4.14 respectively). I use > make-kpkg and > > If your old kernel was of the 2.2.x serie

Re: Problems upgrading kernel

2001-12-10 Thread Charles Baker
--- William P Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to upgrade both a woody box and a > sid box to a 2.4 kernel > (2.4.16 and 2.4.14 respectively). I use make-kpkg > and everthing seems to > work fine but I don't have a network when I reboot > into the new kernel. It > looks like

Re: Yahoo messenger

2001-12-01 Thread Charles Baker
--- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Titty Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use yahoo messenger for x. > > Guess I should have been more specific. I already > have Yahoo! > Messenger; I was looking for the most popular > Debian package. So > far, it appears to be gaim. Anyone

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-30 Thread Charles Baker
> > > <> > > > > > > Now, I'm really confused. I haven't been able to > > get > > > any of the 2.4.x debian kernel packages to boot > > and > > > everything I had read previously in the list > > archives > > > indicated that the initrd line was necessary for > > 2.4.x > > > kernels. I never had an

Re: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h

2001-11-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30-Nov-2001 Charles Baker wrote: > > I just found this neat little doc app for > windowmaker > > called wmfortune. I tried to compile it, but it > can't > > find these include files: X11/

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-30 Thread Charles Baker
--- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > > > > As my subject line indicates, I'm getting > the > > > diagnostic: > > > > > > > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount > root fs > > > on 01:00 > > >

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Charles Baker
--- Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the > diagnostic: > > > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on 01:00 > > > > > > when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. > I've tried several > > >

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Charles Baker
<> > > > apt-get install linuxcookbook > I just tried the above using source.list entries for > stable, and it > wasn't downloaded: > > inneal:~# apt-get install linuxcookbook > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package linuxcookbook > inneal:~#

X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h

2001-11-29 Thread Charles Baker
I just found this neat little doc app for windowmaker called wmfortune. I tried to compile it, but it can't find these include files: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h . What packages do I need to install to get these include files and presumably their implementations? I checked and wmfortune is not an official

Re: apt-get bugzilla/sid ....Preconfiguring packages....

2001-11-22 Thread Charles Baker
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Charles > Baker wrote: > > I am enountering a problem when doing an `apt-get > install bugzilla`. The > > process goes along fine until the line > "Preconfiguring packages ..." is >

UPS hardware and software

2001-11-20 Thread Charles Baker
What brands of UPS's do you all use? What software do you use on your debian boxen to interface with the UPS? = - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCiti

Re: Recommendations on Linux C/C++/Java IDE?

2001-11-19 Thread Charles Baker
--- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any recommendations for a good Integrated > Devevlopment Environment? > > My brother has used MS Developer Studio and likes > working with it. > > I'm encouraging him to make the switch to Linux. > We've looked at code > warrior, code crusader, anjut

bugzilla in sid/unstable

2001-11-14 Thread Charles Baker
I tried to install buzilla on my sid/unstable machine via `apt-get install buzilla` and it seemed as if all was going fine until I got a message "Preconfiguring packages..." It would never go any further, just maxed out the cpu. I did not have mysql installed, I seem to recall that bugzilla uses my

bastille deb

2001-11-12 Thread Charles Baker
Has anyone used the Bastille deb package? If so, what were the results? I have used Bastille on Redhat and Mandrake systems, but haven't seen anything about using it on Debian systems. = - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html _

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-11 Thread Charles Baker
--- Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 19:27, Charles Baker wrote: > > > > I can't get Mozilla nor Galeon 0.12.4 to display > https > > pages. for instance https://login.yahoo.com/ and > even > > going to http://login.y

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-10 Thread Charles Baker
--- Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:06:26PM -0800, Charles > Baker wrote: > > When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error > > "Cannot create browser instance" > > Move your ~/.mozilla directory somewhere else and

mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Charles Baker
When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error "Cannot create browser instance" I installed mozilla via apt-get of the deb package. I'm currently running 2.2.18 kernel and xfree 4.1 and windowmaker .70. I tried to launch from the commandline in an eterm to see any error output, but still only got

Re: Terminals not closing?

2001-10-26 Thread Charles Baker
--- Ian Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this > problem, when I exit > an rxvt or Eterm (using exit, or Ctrl-D), the > terminal just hangs, bash > becomes defunct but the terminal process doesn't > die. > > gnome-terminal and xterm still exits properly

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